Championship opportunities arrive when divisions need them most. Nico Carrillo gets his shot at gold with Tawanchai PK Saenchai sidelined.<\/p>\n
The Scottish powerhouse dominated at featherweight<\/a> since moving up from bantamweight. Now he battles Thai knockout artist Shadow Singha Mawynn for the ONE Interim Featherweight Muay Thai World Title at ONE Fight Night 40<\/a>.<\/p>\n This goes down on Friday, February 13, inside Bangkok\u2019s Lumpinee Stadium.<\/p>\n The 27-year-old Glasgow native has been near-flawless since joining ONE Championship in April 2023. He demolished Furkan Karabag via third-round TKO before moving down to bantamweight. There, he finished Muangthai PK Saenchai via second-round TKO to earn his six-figure contract.<\/p>\n Carrillo knocked out former ONE Bantamweight Muay Thai World Champion Nong-O Hama and Saemapetch Fairtex. Then he faced Nabil Anane for interim gold at ONE 170 in January 2025.<\/p>\n The loss to the Thai-Algerian skyscraper caused him to reassess his ideal weight class, ultimately returning to featherweight where he\u2019s knocked out Sitthichai Sitsongpeenong and Luke Lessei consecutively.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Shadow Singha Mawynn earns title shot through spectacular run<\/p>\n Bangkok\u2019s Shadow Singha Mawynn entered ONE Championship as a Rajadamnern Stadium Muay Thai World Champion. However, he stumbled in his February 2024 promotional debut. That setback sparked a spectacular five-fight winning streak against elite opposition.<\/p>\n Shadow defeated former ONE World Title challenger Jimmy Vienot, recent contract winner Mohammad Siasarani, and even Sitthichai during his remarkable run. His third-round knockout of Hassan Vahdanirad at ONE Friday Fights 100 in March 2025 earned him his own six-figure contract and global roster spot.<\/p>\n The 25-year-old bounced back from a no-contest against Mohamed Younes Rabah in July 2025 by finishing WBC Muay Thai World Champion Bampara Kouyate with a spinning backfist two months later.<\/p>\n Both him and Carrillo represent the finest contenders in the featherweight division, with the winner earning a unification bout against Tawanchai once the champion recovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Championship opportunities arrive when divisions need them most. Nico Carrillo gets his shot at gold with Tawanchai PK…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,110004,2843,195640,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-401473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-nico-carrillo","13":"tag-one-championship","14":"tag-one-fight-night-40","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}